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for police unions provides a unique opportunity to examine these theories, as the police officers either receive their … requested wage or receive a lower one. In the months after New Jersey police officers lose in arbitration, arrest rates and … wage is further from the police union's demand. The findings support the idea that considerations of fairness …
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level of motivation to read. Elementary school students were mailed books weekly during the summer, mailed books and also …
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improve interactions with the public. In a sample of 162 police stations serving almost 8 million people, the first experiment … a second experiment that provided explicit incentives to police officers to carry out sobriety traffic checkpoints and …-scale randomized trials conducted in collaboration with the state police of Rajasthan, India sought to increase police efficiency and …
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In three sets of experiments involving over 4,200 subjects, we show that agents motivated to be selfish make systematic decision errors of the kind generally attributed to cognitive limitations or behavioral biases. We show that these decision errors are eliminated (or dramatically reduced) when...
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consequence, even though firms in our experiment tended to compress wages when wages became public information, this did not raise …
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We provide evidence on how two important types of institutions -- dismissal barriers, and bonus pay -- affect contract enforcement behavior in a market with incomplete contracts and repeated interactions. Dismissal barriers are shown to have a strong negative impact on worker performance, and...
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We investigate the factors driving workers' decisions to generate public goods inside an organization through a randomized solicitation of workplace improvement proposals in a medical center with 1200 employees. We find that pecuniary incentives, such as winning a prize, generate a threefold...
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of a charitable donations by the firm, can increase effort and motivation – sometimes even better than monetary … an experiment in collaboration with an Italian firm, that monetary and prosocial incentives work very differently. While …
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. Examining the strike activity and unionization rates of some 600 nonunion municipal police departments from 1972 to 1978, this … rights for municipal police. However, these strikes do not increase the unionization propensities of these police departments …
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This paper examines potential tradeoffs between research methods in answering important questions versus providing more cleanly identified estimates on problems that are potentially of lesser interest. The strengths and limitations of experimental and quasi-experimental methods are discussed and...
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